Childhood disintegrative disorder

The documentary, Child of Rage (HBO & Monet, 1990), is sad and disturbing. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2013), the child meets much of the criteria for conduct disorder. The child was shown to frequently bully, threaten, intimidate, use pins on people and animals with the intention to harm, was physically cruel to people and animals, stole and hid knives, sexually molested her little brother and stated she wanted to kill her parents and brother which are many of criterion

underlying root to this behavior. In order to handle an outraged child, one must consider why he/she is like this. Three of the reasons why a child could be acting out are separation anxiety, the size of the child’s family and birth order, and disorders. Separation anxiety is defined as the troubled reaction of a child when the parent is absent. This anxiety materializes during the second half year in infants. Separation anxiety usually becomes less frequent and less intense at the end of the

Pervasive Developmental Disorders are characterized by “severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development” (Tsai, 1998). In the 1994 edition of the Diagnostic Statistic Manuel version IV, three new categories were introduced under Pervasive Developmental Disorders. These include: Asperger's Disorder, Childhood Disintigrative Disorder, and Rett's Disorder (Volkmar, 2005). All these disorders occur in early childhood and are often not noticed by a parent or primary care-giver until it

Diagnoses of Childhood Disintegrative Initially childhood disintegrative diagnoses (CDD) was considered as physical disease.(3) Yet it is a developmental disorder. and it can happens after at least 2 years of normal growth.(1) As proof, early diagnoses of CDD helps in controlling the CDD disorder more efficiently, and help the patients’ parents to know more information about the CDD disorder its symptoms, areas that effected and the diagnoses tests and examinations. First of all, many CDD

Chapter 1 focuses on autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs) and other Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Described in 1943 by Dr. Leo Kanner, autism (also known as autistic disorder, childhood autism, or infantile disorder) is one of the PDDs along with Rett's disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD) referred to as Heller's syndrome, Asperger disorder, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). Rett's is a rare genetic abnormality affecting brain development

Autism Spectrum Disorder: DSM-5 Changes and Controversies There are constant changes being made in the DSM and with more research more information is available on the disorders. The recent revisions and changes to the DSM 5 have raised many controversies. The Autism Spectrum Disorder is an illness that affects brain development and is characterized by multiple domains. In the DSM IV the diagnostic criteria for autism and the subtypes worked well at making each disorder distinct and providing the

psychiatric developmental disorder that usually shows itself in the form of communication disorders, short attention span and social problems. Children that show autistic features will not be interacting and playing the way a typical child would. Years ago autism was incredibly rare and almost never found in children. Studies have shown about 1 in every 110 children are diagnosed with autism today. That number was unheard just 40 years ago. Autism is the most severe disorder in what is called the autism

Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of many developmental disabilities that affect students learning. In fact, in the United States, Autism is the fastest-growing severe developmental disorder (“What is Autism,” n.d.). Also, the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder is 1 in 68 children and the prevalence in boys is 1 in 42 children (“What is Autism,” n.d.). Furthermore, Autism Spectrum Disorders also affects the way a child learns and over the years, several teaching strategies have been

2014). Changes in the DSM-V that incorporated Asperger syndrome (AS), autistic disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified into the new umbrella diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder have changed the view of autism and people on the autism

diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, commonly abbreviated as ASDs, is gradually increasing. Today, about one in sixty-eight children have been diagnosed with one of these four disorders, which is a huge increase from one in one hundred fifty, as seen in 2000 (“Data & Statistics” 1). ASDs often coincide with other developmental, psychiatric, neurological, chromosomal, and genetic diagnosis, such as an intellectual disability, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy, Down syndrome